Crystal Palace welcome Manchester City to Selhurst Park on Sunday in their first meeting since the South London club upset Pep Guardiola’s side in the FA Cup final at Wembley
Oliver Glasner has called on Crystal Palace to recreate the “spirit” of their famous FA Cup final triumph over Manchester City on Sunday. And the Eagles boss will take encouragement from the title contenders conceding four goals at Fulham the last time they played in the capital.
The South London club won the first major trophy in their history at Wembley in May when Eberechi Eze netted the winner against City and Dean Henderson saved a penalty. Now the Austrian, whose side go into the weekend fourth in the Premier League, wants a repeat performance at Selhurst Park in their first meeting since May. “I think we were competitive in the FA Cup final,” Glasner said.
“We were very efficient, and we had a great goalkeeper and a great spirit to defend our goal and this we will need again – we will need great spirit and a team effort to defend the goal.
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“We will need a great goalkeeper and we will need to be efficient because I’m pretty sure that we will create three or four chances to score, and of course it would be good to take one of these opportunities.”
The Crystal Palace boss acknowledged his defence will “have to control their attacks” after watching City beat Real Madrid in the Champions League. But he told Palace TV: “We watched them when they played at Fulham [a 5-4 win for City], because we had the next game against Fulham, and also their Real Madrid game away [a 2-1 win for City].
“They’re very impressive, especially how they attack, how they create their chances, and how they score their goals. But on the other side, we could see that they are also giving opportunities to create chances and to score yourself.
“They conceded four against Fulham and conceded two against Leeds. We want to score goals. If we want to win, we need to score, and that’s what we will go for.”
The Eagles had more trouble flying back from Dublin than beating Shelbourne 3-0 to move within a win of qualifying for the Conference League last 16.
After goals from Christantus Uche – on his first start – Eddie Nketiah and Yeremy Pino, Palace spent Thursday night in the Irish capital after “some issues with the plane”. It caused Palace’s usual pre-match press conference to be cancelled.
But Glasner said: “It’s better that there are issues when the plane is on the ground than it happens when we are in the air!
Yes, we’ve had to adjust the plan, but again, it’s not so difficult. We’ll train after arrival with the players who didn’t play many minutes yesterday, and of course, we add JP (Mateta) and Isma (Sarr).
“All the others will do their recovery at home. We stayed here in a nice hotel, so there shouldn’t be any problem for the City game.”
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